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Kia ora Ryan,
Thank you for your request received 04/03/20.

Your request has been referred to our legal services.  We will endeavour
to provide a full response within 20 working days. We will be in touch if
there is an issue meeting this timeframe.

If you need to contact us again about this request, please quote your
customer reference RFS-3998900.

Nga mihi,
Josh

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Ryan Potts

By email only: [FOI #12377 email]

 

Tçnâ koe Mr Potts

 

Official Information Request – RFS 3998900 – Contact with the Minister for
Regional Economic Development

                                                                                                                           

I refer to your information request received 4 March 2020, which has been
referred to Legal Services for consideration in accordance with the
provisions of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act
1987 (‘the LGOIMA’).

 

Information request

 

You requested the Far North District Council (the ‘Council’) provide:  

 

“all correspondence including but not limited to emails, letters, meeting
notes, phone records and transcripts between the Far North District
Council and the Minister for Regional Economic Development, his staff or
any persons acting on his behalf in relation to the Provincial Growth Fund
since 26 October 2017.”

 

Council’s response

 

After considering your request, Council advises that it is simply not
possible to comply with this request as it stands. Council has determined
that what you have requested relates to such an enormous amount of
information that there would be insurmountable difficulties in searching
for and locating it.

 

Council does not have the resources available to manage this task; and the
impact of endeavouring to manage the request on the Council’s operations
would be severely disruptive.

 

In arriving at this outcome, Council also gave due regard to sections 17A
and B of the LGOIMA. Although the Council considered whether to fix a
charge under section 13 of the LGOIMA, and or whether to request an
extension under section 14 of the LGOIMA could resolve the issues;  the
difficulties in actually coming up with the requested information were, in
the Council’s view, totally overwhelming.  Although you may wish to refine
the scope of the request, this would need to be to a hugely significant
degree and be such that it would effectively amount to a new request.

 

Therefore, Council has decided to refuse your request for administrative
reasons. This decision is made pursuant to section 17(f) of the LGOIMA,
which provides that:

 

Section 17 Refusal of requests

 

“A request […] may be refused only for 1 or more of the following reasons,
namely: […]

(f) that the information requested cannot be made available without
substantial collation or research: […] “

 

You have the right to seek a review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
[1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or Freephone 0800 802 602.          

 

Thank you for your enquiry.

 

Nâku noa, nâ

 

 

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Solicitor
Corporate Services, Far North District
Council  |  24-hour Contact Centre 0800 920
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[email address]
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